ALL SOCCER
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Crazy interview with Sugar Pie DeSanto on WFMU’s “Fool’s Paradise” right now. This woman is something else! (And she plays the Bell House in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve)
Here’s the cover of the forthcoming Dinowalrus album Best Behavior — due Feb 2012.
The One, the Only, the Inimitable DOMINO SUGAR factory on the East River. Nice.
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Dinowalrus — Phone Home from the Edge (2010)
Spacy noise with some truly delightful guitar flurries and drum rolls, from Brooklyn’s very own Dinowalrus.
NYC folks: they play tonight (12/1) at Glasslands with Gauntlet Hair, or next Thursday 12/8 at 285 Kent. In lieu of that, check ‘em out at bandcamp.
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Trippple Nippples — LSD (2011)
Magic noise from Tokyo. These ladies are cooking up everything from glittery late-night ravers like this to cumbia-crunk dancefloor drops like ‘Drink the Haterade.’ So, so dirty.
They play Glasslands in Brooklyn 12/14 with Bermuda Bonnie, AIMES, and Knife City. Performances may include “water pistols, glitter bombs, fake blood and feathers.” You in?
PREMIERE: Trippple Nippples - LSD
Seriously, this band. They’re like walking explosions. That energy! Can you imagine if they shared a stage with Born Gold? It’d be so heavy they’d cause a spontaneous black hole or a rip in the space-time continuum. Let’s see if we can make it happen, doctor.
Also, you’re not going to want to miss the clip of them in Pharell Williams doc “Tokyo Rising”. Goodness! Lucky for us Yankees, they’re coming to America in December! You’re not going to want to miss the action.
Previously: “M.I.A.M.I”
Psychic Ills — Mind Daze
from Hazed Dream (2011, Sacred Bone Records)
video directed by Harrison Owen
Brooklyn’s own Psychic Ills have put down the sensimilla for a second to record this hazy masterpiece of circa-1994 grungy glory, paired here with a psychedelic spectacle of oil-sheen colors. The scene at 2:25 is pure gold, and the ocean looks like lava.
The always-tuned-in Rose Kohl tells us Psychic Ills will be providing the soundtrack to the new film Dragonslayer at Williamsburg’s Public Assembly tonight. (free!) If you can’t make that, stream the new album at Soundcloud.
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Street Gnar — Without Blue
from Poking The World With A Stick (2011)
Lovely lo-fi beercan rock from Case Mahan, a Brooklyn transplant from Lexington, Kentucky.
Check out his stuff for free at bandcamp… or IN PERSON! At Williamburg’s Bruar Falls this Sat 10/22 for a CMJ showcase. Set time 3pm.
His photoblog is also worth a gander.
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Razika — Vondt I Hjertet (Pain in the Heart)
from Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound; 2011)
Razika is four Norwegian 20-year-olds who’ve known each other since age six, and have been playing music together for oh, a quarter of their lives.
These girls don’t growl. They don’t yell. What they excel at is Norwegian honey torture — dripping heart-melting pop into your ears until you want to scream “stop it! STOP IT!!!”
Regarding their ska-pop sound, FADER asked the girls earlier this year which ska bands they liked:
The Specials, Madness. But actually we listen most to Norwegian ska bands from the early ’80s. Friends of our parents played in this band Program 81 and we named our record after that band. They’re really great. They both sang in Norwegian and in English so when we discovered them we were like, Oh we can try that as well.
Norwegian ska bands from the early ’80s? The time is ripe for discovery, my friends.
Catch Razika at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg this Friday night. Or visit them on soundcloud // myspace // facebook.
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B.T. Express — Do It Til You’re Satisfied
from Do It Til You’re Satisfied (1974)
Here is some extremely chewy disco-funk from the “Brooklyn Sound” of the 70s—the group known first as Madison Street Express, later Brooklyn Trucking Express. The spoken word call/response on this track is nothing short of genius. Their other big hit, ‘Express,’ features someone blowing on a wooden train whistle. Also genius. And surely not a coincidence that the album hit #1 on the Soul charts.
This also happens to be the primordial funk from which crawled the smoothly evolved R&B of Kashif (he was keyboardist for the band for a stint in the mid 70s, though doesn’t appear on this album).
The cover is not a platform from the JMZ line, as I’d originally imagined. Instead, as the train sleuths (and former Long Island Railroad conductors) over at Railroad.net have determined, those beautifully ornate railings once graced the Nostrand Ave LIRR station. Trains. An obsession of mine, I’ll admit. My biggest unrealized fantasy as a 9-year-old, nose buried deep in Model Railroader magazine, was to build a train set that would displace everything else in my parents’ garage. Never say never…
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Glass Boy — A friendship over a long distance.
from Splayed and Nonplussed (2011)
Something dreamy from itinerant electronic producer Glass Boy aka Justin Lambert, currently in Brooklyn, by way of Bloomington, Indiana and Charleston, South Carolina. Says his bio: “He is currently working on the soundtrack for a documentary on victims of torture for the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture.” Stay tuned…
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